ack154
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This will probably not really surprise anyone, but I wanted to share the dumb things I experienced this weekend on a little day trip we took.
We drove down to State College on Saturday to walk around the PSU campus, have lunch, and get some ice cream at the creamery. I knew we were going to have to charge on the way back. It was a little over 300 miles, round trip.
We ended up charging at a Sheetz with some EA chargers right off I99 outside of State College when we left. That went mostly well except that "plug and charge" is NEVER plug and charge for me. I always have to do something else to get it to charge (usually activate a charger in the FP app after I've connected - this is dumb). Anyway, charged up from 29% to 85% (36 min) to get home and that was that, kind of.
We had to stop at Target on the way home to pick up a prescription. It was a few miles off the original straight route we drove down, but still just a short drive home directly from Target. We added that as waypoint in addition to "home" in the nav and left. Apparently that was enough of a detour for the Ford navigation to want us to charge again. Except here's how it did it...
It wanted us to drive to Target, then BACKTRACK the same route we just came 17 miles to use a charger that we had just passed at a dealership on the way up. And then drive another 20 miles home from that charger. So that's stupid thing number one - why not just have us to stop at that charger on the way to Target?
Stupid thing number two is that home is only 15 miles from the Target on a different road. So we would be backtracking more miles just to get to the charger than it would take us to just go straight home from Target. And there was no need to charge (which I already knew). Enjoy my attached note-to scale Paint map to explain a little more.
The only other weird thing I saw is that after I entered a destination in the Ford nav, the estimated range to empty always went up. Like, really unrealistically, 30-40 miles. I definitely knew what it was going to do vs what that estimate said (and I was pretty close on my own estimates), but I couldn't figure out why entering a destination made it increase when the regular range estimate was already fairly accurate.
Side note: the Grilled Stickies ice cream is pretty amazing. https://creamery.psu.edu/grilled-stickies-ice-cream
We drove down to State College on Saturday to walk around the PSU campus, have lunch, and get some ice cream at the creamery. I knew we were going to have to charge on the way back. It was a little over 300 miles, round trip.
We ended up charging at a Sheetz with some EA chargers right off I99 outside of State College when we left. That went mostly well except that "plug and charge" is NEVER plug and charge for me. I always have to do something else to get it to charge (usually activate a charger in the FP app after I've connected - this is dumb). Anyway, charged up from 29% to 85% (36 min) to get home and that was that, kind of.
We had to stop at Target on the way home to pick up a prescription. It was a few miles off the original straight route we drove down, but still just a short drive home directly from Target. We added that as waypoint in addition to "home" in the nav and left. Apparently that was enough of a detour for the Ford navigation to want us to charge again. Except here's how it did it...
It wanted us to drive to Target, then BACKTRACK the same route we just came 17 miles to use a charger that we had just passed at a dealership on the way up. And then drive another 20 miles home from that charger. So that's stupid thing number one - why not just have us to stop at that charger on the way to Target?
Stupid thing number two is that home is only 15 miles from the Target on a different road. So we would be backtracking more miles just to get to the charger than it would take us to just go straight home from Target. And there was no need to charge (which I already knew). Enjoy my attached note-to scale Paint map to explain a little more.
The only other weird thing I saw is that after I entered a destination in the Ford nav, the estimated range to empty always went up. Like, really unrealistically, 30-40 miles. I definitely knew what it was going to do vs what that estimate said (and I was pretty close on my own estimates), but I couldn't figure out why entering a destination made it increase when the regular range estimate was already fairly accurate.
Side note: the Grilled Stickies ice cream is pretty amazing. https://creamery.psu.edu/grilled-stickies-ice-cream
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